On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 09:33 -0400, William Cohen wrote: > Does the process of generating an usb flash key with a live cd work?
Works great for me. Unfortunately, different USB keys will sometimes require some tweaking based on how they're shipped :-/ > I was trying to make a live usb flash image based on fedora 7. I was > unsuccessful. I was able to take a live image and copy it over to a usb flash > device using livecd-iso-to-disk command. However, the device did not boot. It > would print a message that Grub was starting up and then give an "Error 17". > The > attempt was to create a FC7 i686 image using a x86_64 rawhide machine. The > I am wondering if there is some differences in what linux names the usb key > and what the bios names the device are causing the problems. The machine this > is > running on is a compaq presario R3000. A grub message? We're not using grub for the F7 live images. Did you previously have a regular install on there? If so, you probably need to replace the mbr with a "stock" mbr with something like cat /usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sdX Unfortunately, detecting this is pretty close to impossible :-/ Jeremy -- Fedora-livecd-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-livecd-list
